The death sentence is about revenge, not justice. The only "justice"
involved is making sure you got the right guy. I have nothing against
revenge. I am of the opinion that it is better to seek justice than
revenge, but sometimes this is not possible. Then you get revenge and
it's a good thing.

The question is, when and how did the state arrogate the right to get
revenge? Not just the death sentence, but all other revenge. We keep
hearing the expression that a criminal completing a sentence has paid
his debt to society. I'm sorry, a thief didn't steal from society, he
stole from me. He owes me a debt, cash plus interest equal to what he
took from me. That's justice. If I slap him around a little as a
warning not to try to steal from me again that is "punishment" and
revenge. If he's smart he'll apply this "lesson" to how he acts
towards others before he forces someone to cripple or kill him in
self defense.

Justice is compensation, revenge is collecting payment on a debt that
can not be repaid. That compensation is due the victim is reflected
in civil suits.

However we have a huge "justice" system that is designed to collect
compensation and revenge for the state (AKA "the Commonwealth", "the
People of..", Society", "the Crown" in Canada and Great Britain). How
did an injury to me or people for who I am an agent become an injury
to the State? Note I did not ask "When did I appoint the State my
agent to collect my debts and avenge unpayable debts for me?" I am
asking when did the State become the aggrieved party in a crime, the
one who gets compensation or revenge?

And I keep getting the same answer. When kings were the masters of
all and the rest of us were slaves murder, robbery, assault, rape all
damaged the kings' property, and it was the kings who were due
compensation and revenge, not the actual victims.

We don't have Kings anymore in the USA, we do have State, local and
Federal Governments. As long as we're stuck with the damn things,
perhaps it's time to make it clear that people as individuals, not
people collectively, Society, The state, whatever are the victims of
crimes and the ones due compensation and revenge, not the state.

If someone murders (kills in the act of committing a crime or to deny
the victim their rights) a kinsman or close enough friend I want
revenge. I want them dead. The problem is that the way things are now
the state isn't collecting this revenge for the murdered persons kin
and friends, it is collecting the debt for itself.